When the nattily dressed, bespectacled bank employee and former cricket captain Basil Darling arrived on the west coast from Toronto in the early 1900s, few might have guessed he’d become…

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On The Trail

Trailblazer: Vernon Pick’s Apocalypse Now

January 26, 2016
Editor

Just outside of Lillooet, traveling north on the Duffey Lake Road, you might spot the carved “Walden North” sign and mistake it for a B&B. It’s a welcoming, solid timbered sign on a quiet gravel road running back into the canyon.

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Skiing

Mountain Lifer: Wendy Brookbank Helped Launch Women’s Freeskiing

January 20, 2016
Ben Osborne

As a 19-year-old skier, she discovered the meaning of life: Ditch the gates, charge hard, make movies, have fun—and never get an indoor job. Twenty-five years and two kids later,…

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